Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-13

B. Thompson, ESQ.,, lev. 5. L. Fulton. 4.
Query box. 5. Adiourment.
REV w. B. JENNINGS,
REvG. A. BLACKBURN,
A.. f WHITE,
R. SDLER,
Gmmittee of Pres6yte'y.
CONDITION OITHE CROPS.
A. P. Butler, direcpr of the South Car
DINA weather servie, furnishes the fol-
lowing data concerning the effect of the
weather on the varids crops during the
week ending July 9th:
The rainfall for tb present week has
been slightly abovet the average in the
State, although in some of the upper and
middle counties it las been rather un-
evenly distributed. It's effect on the crops,
especially corn, has ieen very favorable.
Copious showers haze occurred in many
counties on five daysof the week, the rain
of the 9Th in Fairfield having caused small
streams to overflow thereby doing slight
damage to corn, buthis was Offset by the
benefit derived fromthe rain.
The temperature I the week has been
generally about thesverage, two or three
counties in the upperind middle divisions,
reporting slightly beow the average. Its
general effect on the crops, especially cot
ton, has been favorable. In counties
where it was reporta below the average,
cotton has not suffered.
Sunshine has ben somewhat less than
eaverage /; corn has ben benefited thereby,
land cotton, WhiIeSlps benefited, has sus-
tanned no injury, he evenings and nights
being warm. g.. -
Corn has been veil cultivated and is in
fine condition, though needing more rain
in some sections notably. in Marlboro,
Chesterfield and Hampton counties. Cot
ton has probably received sufficient rain,
but no injury is repDrted and the prospect
is good. Chinch bugs are reported as do
ing some damageItd corn in Chesterfield,
but with recent rains it is thought the
damage will not prove serious. They are
also reported in Bamwell.
The statistician, If the Department Of
Agriculture at Washington reports, under
date of July 9th, a further extension of the
corn area of about me and a half million
acres, an increase Of 2 per cent. owe the
acreage of 1886. In The States of declining
wheat culture, maize has advanced its area
largely, notably in Kansas. A marked
advance is notedIin the district between
the Mississippi and The Rocky Mountains,
and considerable Increase is reported in
the cotton StatesI The season has been
fairly favorable, both for planting and
growth, and the condition is high, aver
aging 9.47, whichdiffers a little from the
July condition of the past three years, and
is materially higher than for the three
years preceding 1884. The great corn
growing States which furnish the surplus,
average nearly 99in condition.
The condition of Winter wheat on the
first of July, or at the time of harvest for
thu ~ Confharn Gfo{oo &c Q OK n ro1I1a-
ton since the June report of IA. There
has been a heavy decline in Kansas, a
material reduction in California, with
some loss in several Southern States.
Some of the remainder have gained a
point or two others have lost. The chinch
bug has wrought some damage in the
most Western States and in Maryland and
Virginia. Where harvested grain has
been threshed, the results are variable,
with plump sound grain in some localities
and a shrunken berry indicated in others.
The general average is 1893 against 1888
last year..
The status of the cotton crop has not
declined since the last report. In the
Southeast there is a slight reduction, COM
pensated by a small advance in the States
West of the Mississippi. The average is
81, which is four points higher than the
average for July in the previous ten years.
It was exceeded in 1873 and 1880 and near
ly equalled in July 1881 and 1884, which
were years of.small production. There
have been but two July records below
ninety since 1873. The State averages are
as follows: Virginia SO, North Carolina
80, South Carolina 81, Georgia Sc, Florida
SO, Alabama IS, Mississippi 80, Louisiana
50, Texas SO, Arkansas SO, Tennessee 50.
The crop is under unusually clean cultiva-
ton, there being few reports OF injury
from excessive moisture and few o. drought.
Cotton worms are indicated in very few
localities. r
The following is the weather and crop
bulletin of the Washington signal service
office for the week ending July 9th:
During the week the weather has been
warmer than usual generally throughout
the Northern States and on the Pacific
coast, the average daily excess being about
a degree from New England westward to
the upper Mississippi Valley, and about
seven degrees on the Pacific coast. 1t was
cooler than usual throughout the Southern
States, and in the cotton region the daily
average was about three degrees below
the normal excess of temperature through
out the Northern States during the past
two weeks. The cool weather in the
Southern States during the same period
leaves the average daily temperature for
the season from January l to July 9 9 about
normal, the difference of the daily aver
age from normal being generally less than
one degree throughout the agricultural
regions.
The rainfalls have been in excess of the
usual rainfalls in the Southern States. The
same is also true northward TO the Lake
regions including the southern portions OF
New England and the Middle Atlantic
States. There has been less than the
usual amount of rainfall in theStates ofthe
Missouri Valley. Numerous and abund-
ant rains have occurred in the cotton re-
gions and in that portion of the corn re-
zion east of the Mississippi. For the sea-
son from January l to July 9the defcien-
CIV of rainfall continues throughout the
Southern States and the Mississippi Val
ley, but the rainfall during the past two
weeks has greatly reduced the deficiency
for the season, and occurring at critical pc
RODS has probably affected most benef-
cially corn and cotton.
The weather generally during the past
week has greatly improved the condition
of the growing crops. Both grain and har-
vesting are we'll advanced in the extreme
northern portions of the country, though it
has been retardedin some sections by Sc
we're local storms.
INTERVENTION.
The Georgia Legislature met on Mon
day of last week. The session is expected
to last three months. The sale of the
State road, the convict lease system and
the local option bills will occupy the at
tention of the body.'Three hundred